What has happened Charles is that the feds threw together the Base
Gagetown and Area Fact Finder Project (BGAFFP) to investigate all the chemical spraying that was done at CFB Gageotwn.
I couldnt beleive it!!! Where else have you ever heard of the accused
leading the investigation???!!!...LOL
Well we starting raising a little fuss and they said that now Greg
Thompspn the Veteran Affairs Minister is looking after the Agent Orange file.
But as far as we know and as far as Ron Murray 2nd in command at the BGAFFP is concerned DND is still in charge.
Karen Ellis who is Assistant Deputy Minister of the Department of
National Defence is a co-chair with the Fact Foinder project.
It kinda smells a little huh?....lol
Art Connolly
Vice President
Agent Orange Association of Canada
Monday, May 22, 2006
AGENT ORANGE ASSOCIATION HAS SOME GRAVE CONCERNS!!!!
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It has smelled from the get go. Before testing was done at Gagetown New Brunswick was using Agent Orange on forests all over the province. NB Power used it between their power lines, and almost all the people who worked for them then are dead.
The Department of Natural Resources used it all over the province, right up until the early eighties. After then there were regulations, but lots of ways around them.
Although one of the two ingredients (2,4,5-T) was made illegal not because it was bad, but because during production it was common to 'accidentally' create TCDD, which has been proven to be an active carcinogen.
The other ingredient (2,4-D) was deemed not cancerous and now is called Roundup. In Maine the state was worried Irving would use it on their private land, but Irving said they wouldn't because in Maine it isn't a deductible expense-which means they pay for it. Yet here in NB it IS a deductible expense, which means New Brunswickers are paying to poison themselves.
It costs ten dollars but every person in New Brunswick should get to a clinic or doctor and get a dioxin test. Somebody should start a website where people can post their results, because New Brunswickers are among the most poisoned people on the continent.
Unfortunately, the province doesn't allow class action suits, but perhaps if there are enough people affected, one person can sue and others can raise money and share in the benefits. In 1984 Canadian veterans got compensation from a lawsuit with Dow Chemical and Monsanto, the makers of the 'rainbow herbicides', so there is precedent.
The problem has been that during manufacture, it is easy to create a different molecule with just slight changes in production, such as what happened with the creation of TCDD.
The other problem is that it is not known what the chemical makeup of most of these 'soups' are because they are proprietary. Therefore, the company themselves do the tests.
We know how dangerous this is, hell, if you eat too much sugar you can get cancer, so there's no telling what the mixture of these chemicals is having on the general population.
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